What it means
A national organization that supports and connects hospital-based violence-intervention programs and helps build the field of healthcare-based responses to violence.
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- Where it shows up
- A hospital and a community partner want to begin violence intervention at the bedside.
- A useful move
- Use HAVI's field resources to examine staffing, patient consent, referrals, follow-up, and the relationship between hospital and community teams.
- What this does not prove
- Membership or a model name does not prove a hospital can deliver safe, consistent intervention.
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